July 2025, Paper: Place-based policy in the United States comprises a wide range of government programs that are spread across federal, state, and local agencies and that rely on…
July 2025, Paper: "How does improving access to the supply of energy affect regional specialization in manufacturing? We evaluate the long-run employment impacts of pipelines…
We evaluate two interventions designed to improve students’ postsecondary readiness, as measured by their GPA, self-reported career readiness, and self-reported social emotional…
In the summer of 2020, George Floyd’s video-graphed murder by Minneapolis police officers sparked a renewed public discourse about the role that police and policing play in the…
In the summer of 2020, George Floyd’s video-graphed murder by Minneapolis police officers sparked a renewed public discourse about the role that police and policing play in the…
George Floyd’s murder by Minneapolis police officers was followed not only by global protests for racial justice but also by the promise of reforms meant to curtail anti-Black law…
Money in politics is the subject of great debate at every level of government, yet it has principally been studied at the federal level in the US. Where scholars have analyzed…
The study of urban and local politics in the United States has long been hindered by a lack of centralized sources of election data. We introduce a new database of about 78,000…
Housing costs across the nation and in Greater Boston are rising, and many policymakers have turned to Inclusionary Zoning (IZ) in an attempt to dampen these effects on their…
Previous research finds that the greater geographic mobility of foreign than native-born workers following economic shocks helps to facilitate local labor market adjustment to…
